The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-24
POLES DISAGREE.
Members Of S.. Aibertus Parish Fight
Pitch Battle.
Both Parties Make War on the BIZ .
cOatS.a Sight.
North Clrolina Publisher Arrested
for Advertising Lotteries.
A Storm Paralyzss Eastern Telegraph
Communication.
French D gnItaries Celebrate Emperor
Williams Birthday.
F.rhti-r Po,ea.

CHICAGO, Ills, March ga special
from Detroit says: Excitement in the
Polish quarter is still at white heat.
OF So, 900 Poles in Detroit, over 1000
are members of st. Albertus parish.
Of these fully 5000 are known as Kola-
sinkians, after the faith of the deposed
priest for whose rights they have
been fighting now for nearly eighteen
months. The remaining 1000 are
Dombrowiskians, and sustain the
priest who succeeded Kolasinki. The
two factions fight among themselves,
but when the police appear they
make common cause against the
blue coats. The result of Sun
days riot was the wounding of
Captain Mack and seven policemen. by
stones and other missiles thrown by
the Infatuated mob, the shooting of
Annie Wabrack, a polish girl, in the
hip, the arrest of John KotZenber and
Anton Guttesky, two rioters, and in
jury to between 100 and 200 men and
women by missiles. 1t was long
after midnight when the mob was en-
tirely dispersed and it was hardly day
break yesterday when the trouble was
renewed. The dispersed Polanders
swarmed to the church in large num-
berS and SWoTe vengeance on the police
and each other. Each faction accused
the other of precipitating the conflict,
and if they had only been left to them
selves would have fought it out and
settled the matter probably for good,
but the police appeared and the whole
crowd turned against the peace pre-
servers as they did Sunday. 1t required
great bravery and cloolness on the part
of the police to prevent bloodshed, but
they managed to do so until
Iauf Tn tho aIrL1inrr nn2TIU pVRPV
family of the Kolasinski faction assem-
bled in the street near the church. A
number of men carried clubs and two
men and children had bricks and other
missiles in their hands. They kept up
continual chattering' and gesticula-
ting. Hundreds of people who had no
concern in the church affairs at all -,
flocked to the Scence, There were at a
low estimate 5000 within a block
of the church. Fears that the kolas-
inski crowd would attack the convent
or injure some of the children attend
ing school, drew out crowd of Dom
broWski's adherents. The latter were
posted in a compact form on the cor
ner of st. Aubin and Willis avenues,
near the church, the others being in
possession of st. Aubin avenue. A small
squad of police patrolled the street be-
tween the two parties. Then the two
CROW Us began 10 clOSe III Oh TIC odfCSES'
The latter divided evenly and turned
back to back and charged the mob with
drawn clubs. There was some lively
fighting for few minutes. The police
fought for their lives, for the maddened
Poles seemed bent on killing them that
they might kill each other.
For fully five minutes the little
squad fought with their clubs against
overwhelming odds and they finally
succeeded after battering the heads of
a dozen or more ringleaders in over
awning them. The Poles who had pis
tolls fired them and the police discharged
one or two volleys in the air. 1t is es-
timated that fifty Poles were badly
hurt by missiles, but how seriously,
cannot be learned. Several officers
| sustained grave injuries.